Leadwork, old and ornamental, and for the most part English (1893)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · London, Macmillan · leaf 156
LEADWORK [sect. 144 these were made about 1600. At the Bodleian and St. John’s College, Oxford, there is a fine series of pipe heads with painted patterns. At Norham Castle some pipe heads are dated 1605. Abbot’s Hospital at Guildford has a large series of heads later in charaeter than those at… … Fig. 72. — St. John’s, Oxford. Here pierced work is used as a brattishing to the top edge of the fronts ; they are signed G. A. and dated 1627. At Canons Ashby there is a pair of most rococo pipe heads, with applied pierced castings, masks and acanthus leaves.^ These heads are fixed on iron cramps,…
Leadwork
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